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Attribution Without a Pixel

Pixel- and cookie-based tracking has been steadily degraded by iOS privacy changes and third-party cookie deprecation. The good news: you can measure what is working without any of it, using first-party data you already own. Here is how.

By Joris van Huët, Founder & CEOUpdated 2026-09-09

Why pixel-based attribution broke

Opt-outs, capped attribution windows, and cookie loss mean pixels now miss and misattribute a large share of conversions. Patching them with modeled conversions inside each platform just re-introduces the platform's bias.

The first-party alternative

Your Shopify orders and GA4 exports are first-party and complete. Causal modeling on that history estimates each channel's incremental contribution without tracking individual users - privacy-safe by construction, and unaffected by the next browser change.

Find your wasted ad spend in 5–10 minutes.

Watch the model work on a sample store first, no signup. Then upload your last 40–90 days of GA4 sessions and get incremental ROAS with confidence intervals. No pixel, no SDK. €99 per read.

Prefer to talk it through? Book a 20-min call, or read how it works.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to install anything?

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No - it runs on your existing Shopify + GA4 exports.

Is this affected by iOS or cookie changes?

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No - it uses aggregate first-party data, not user-level tracking.

Causal attribution check

Find your wasted ad spend
in 5–10 minutes.

Watch the model work on a sample store first, no signup. Then upload your last 40–90 days of GA4 sessions (and Shopify orders if you have them) and get incremental ROAS with confidence intervals. No pixel, no SDK, no integration project. €99 per run. Every quarter on last-click adds to your marketing debt.

Prefer to talk it through first? Book a 20-min call, or read how it works.